Father Quotes · Page 69

While I was growing up, I wasn't like, 'My father's a rapper, so I'm going to be one, too.'

— Ice Spice

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

— David Cassidy

I did not get into a fistfight with my father at my sister's wedding. My sister didn't have a wedding.

— Tom Junod

“He's your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that's all we have to wok…

— Tayari Jones

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

— Christian Bale

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

— Plato

“No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”

— Anonymous

I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.

— Gaspar Noe

It's not who you are, but whose you are that counts. Because God is your heavenly Father, doors of opportunity will open…

— Joel Osteen

Between 1965 and 1980, my mother, Frances Junod, served cutlets of pale flesh - mostly veal and chicken, though sometimes pork -…

— Tom Junod

When I heard him speak at the DNC [in 2004] I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of…

— Malaak Shabazz

The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure…

— Bob Ney

“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father…

— David Duchovny

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I came from my father being one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. It's really hard to fill those shoes.

— Brooke Hogan

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a…

— St. Catherine of Siena

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words;…

— Francois Fenelon

I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their…

— Joan Halifax

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or…

— Alison Bechdel

“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person…

— Mitch Albom

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the…

— Dylan Thomas

“A warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I'm sort of a father figure to a lot of these players.

— Doug Pederson

“The father who went off to war was not the one who came home.”

— Kristin Hannah

Dad couldn't train me. He was too high-strung, like, 'Throw your jab!' and I'd start crying.

— Andre Ward

The challenges of me being a father are just the same as any other father.

— Karamo Brown

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

— Duane Chapman

We've always been inspired by England; my father's first store was here.

— David Lauren

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

— Rodney Dangerfield

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

— Confucius

My father had the curved feet, my mother the legs, so I am a bit of both.

— Sylvie Guillem

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

— Ian Mcewan

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

— Nancy Grace

“My father was right: people are always leaving. They fall in and out of your life like shadows.”

— Susan Hubbard

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

— Ted Cruz

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

— Jane Austen

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

— Yo Gotti

My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

— Jack Kilmer